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What are you talking about? This was awesome! My final impression is included.

Summary:

Saito appears just in time to save Louise from an enemy attack, while the city lays in chaos. While the airships are being boarded with evacuees, Henrietta is informed of the situation. With an army of seven million approaching, Henrietta still insists on taking the last ship out. Elsewhere, Louise explains the mission she accepted without Henrietta’s knowledge. Saito attempts to stop her from sacrificing herself, but Louise expresses that it is for everyone’s sake. Louise embraces Saito while advising Saito to run away, and Saito eventually agrees with Louise. He starts to prepare a drink for the two, when Louise suddenly requests a marriage. Louise obtains two flowers from a closing shop, Ekulerudamru, before the two head to a church. There, Saito prepares the sleeping potion before the vows. Saito expresses his love for Louise, but Louise faints before she can reply. Taking her outside, Saito finds Gulio waiting for them. Saito expresses his want to fight for the woman he loves, before leaving Louise in Gulio’s hands.

Louise wakes aboard an airship, shocked at the current situation. Meanwhile, Saito faces against the countless enemy army. Although he fends off several of them, he eventually falls with the desire to live on for Louise. Aboard the airship, the Ekulerudamru in Louise’s hands fades. Later, although they were saved, the inhabitants of the magical academy grief over Saito’s death. Louise is finally able to admit her love for Saito in tears, when the Ekulerudamru in her hands suddenly lights back up. Louise runs outside to find Saito in front of the school, and the two embrace each other happily. However, when Saito mentions that he was saved by a large breasted fairy, Louise’s usual anger returns. Saito runs away from something tougher than an army of seven million, while the rest of the academy expresses their gladness that Saito is still alive.

Impression:

So, typically as of late, I watched this episode late because of Uni. Because of that, I had already read a lot of the other anime blogs who had covered the episode. I’m just not someone who is bothered by spoilers. Kurogane’s impression stood out to me in particular, labeling the episode as a failure. With that, I was kind of expecting to be disappointed by this episode. In actuality, I loved it! The beginning of the episode was serious business while building up to the climax of the series, as expected, and I was overjoyed at the marriage scene (WOO!). It’s pretty cool that they showed the scene from the OP, which had the silly sounds just like the last episode of the first season. Saito’s fight was totally awesome. I’m signing up for the love power army right now! Louise’s scenes of loss were pretty tear jerking, and it was just great when Saito came back. He was saved by a silly fairly, so? This show has always been a mix of serious business and love comedy. That’s what defines the show! There was no way that they would end the series on a sad note. That would have been even worse.

As much as I liked this episode, my overall impression might not be as good. The series had some great episodes, but for the most part, this season just didn’t have the great mix of humor and plot that the first season had. Like Kabitzin likes to mention a lot, this season seemed to focus way too much on Agnes, a character that was only introduced in this season. Besides that, her background story did not really add much to the overall story. As powerful as Colbert’s arc was, it just didn’t play well into the overall plot. Speaking of that plot, it was barely touched on! The war seemed to take a small part in the background, with the main antagonist appearing like twice or something. The last episode might have finally taken things into action, but it definitely seemed forced. I don’t think it would have been that hard to have one more episode to slow things down a little bit. Maybe they could have taken that crappy episode with the random soldier out. Oh well. In the end, the series was only decent as a sequel to our beloved Zero no Tsukaima. Here’s to hoping the third season will be much better, when and if we ever get it.

PS: Mamiko Noto as the fairly? Um…awesome!?